Very happy with the new publication and our goal to deeply understand motor assessments: Test of Gross Motor Development-3: Item Difficulty and Item Differential Functioning by Gender and Age with Rasch Analysis mdpi.com/1728538 #mdpiijerph via IJERPH

This was an incredible opportunity to collectively shine a light on inequities in publishing child development research from Majority World countries. It should not be so challenging to publish work on children who make up most the world’s population! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ic…

Motor development in the first year of life predicts impairments in cognition and language at 3 years old in a Brazilian preterm cohort of low-income families frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

🔟for🔟🎉 Celebrating 10 years with articles from our archives. This week, from 2015, by Nadia Cristina Valentini et al. "Exploring Associations between Motor Skill Assessments in Children With, Without, and At-Risk for Developmental Coordination Disorder" 🆓doi.org/10.1123/jmld.2…

Bravo Journal of Physical Activity & Health 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 This is a great position statement, following on from the recent ISPAH congress #ISPAH2022 in the Middle East where we got to enjoy diverse cultures, countries and climates!

Great presentation by Clarice Lucena Martins at BASES - preschoolers self organized FMS Mike Duncan Paulo Felipe R Bandeira Isaac Estevan Anthony Okely Dr. Amanda Staiano Daniele Magistro Farid Bardid Leah Robinson Matthieu Lenoir Nadia Cristina Valentini Rachel Jones Rafael Henrique Sitong Chen I-MDRC

New publication: Motor, Physical, and Psychosocial Parameters of Children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Comparative and Associative Study mdpi.com/2116270 #mdpiijerph via IJERPH, I-MDRC

Happy to share a new article: Effect of a motor skill-based intervention in the relationship of indi... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Here we investigated the risk factors associated with intrauterine environments (diabetes, SGA newborns due to idiopathic intrauterine growth restriction, tobacco, control group) and infants' motor development of children at 6 months.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37365232/

I am so happy to be elected as an International Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology! Thanks to everyone that has been part of my research passion - I could not achieve this honor without your collaboration! I will receive the honor at the NAK September meeting!

In over 5000 preschool kids we already see that heavier children have poorer motor skills. Largest analysis ever ⁦I-MDRC⁩ aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Last Saturday, I was inducted as an International Fellow into the National Academy of Kinesiology. I am truly grateful for this honor. Thanks to my nominees - Mary Rudisill, Jane Clark, Jackie Goodway, Nancy Getchell, Leah Robinson, David Stodden, and David Anderson.

A new publication is out portraying the protocol we use to measure the fidelity of our interventions - Motor skills intervention: conceptual and operational model and the determination of fidelity indexes tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A new publication shows that for children with DCD family SES, schools with space for children’s movement, screen time, and successful engagement were associated with Physical Activity, and that active play and screen time were associated with BMI. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

First extensive review on #Motorskills and #cognitive and #social outcomes! Led by Phil HIll link.springer.com/10.1007/s40279… I-MDRC Deakin IPAN

Happy to share a new publication: Developmental coordination disorder in preterm children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis - Panceri - European Journal of Neuroscience - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ej…

Wonderful to hear Nadia Cristina Valentini share her work within the keynote today at AIESEP #aiesep2024 #motorcompetency #motortrajectory #physicalactivity #earlymoves #earlymovement #earlyyears #motordelays

Phenomenal keynote by Prof Nadia Cristina Valentini at #AIESEP2024 on children's motor development. Mastery climate interventions can support motor development in children with DCD and those facing poverty. She concluded by stressing the need for more research from the ‘global south’.

Check out the new article! The longitudinal impact of a parent-guided intervention for preterm children with very low birth weight. The results are compelling and offer hopeful insights! I-MDRC jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

I am sharing the release of this highly relevant book for school physical education practice, in which I wrote the chapter "Motor Skill Assessment in Children and Adolescents." AIESEP I-MDRC link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…